The NAACP Legal Defense and Educations Fund, Inc. (LDF) strongly supports the bipartisan, bicameral legislative package on water rights introduced by Michigan legislators today. These bills would establish sanitary and affordable water as a human ...
Updated on Nov. 13, 2015 with more obituaries and rememberances. The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) deeply mourns the passing of former Associate Director-Counsel, Jacqueline A. Berrien, who succumbed to a brief ...
Tamir Rice, a 12-year old boy, was fatally killed by Cleveland Police Officer. LDF Associate Director-Counsel Janai Nelson casts doubt on the finding that the officer’s conduct was objectively reasonable at the time, saying that ...
Read More Here: LDF Celebrates 75 Years of Visionary Civil Rights Leadership at Annual National Equal Justice Award Dinner, Black PR Wire (Nov. 10, 2015) Taylor Lewis, Legal Defense Fund Presents Eric Holder With Lifetime ...
(New York, NY) – Sherrilyn Ifill, NAACP Legal Education and Defense Fund, Inc.’s (“LDF”) President and Director-Counsel, delivers her lecture “America Divided: Brown’s Predictive Power & the Urgent Moment for Racial Equality” for the 20th ...
(New York, NY) – Sherrilyn Ifill, NAACP Legal Education and Defense Fund, Inc.’s (“LDF”) President and Director-Counsel, delivers her lecture “America Divided: Brown’s Predictive Power & the Urgent Moment for Racial Equality” for the 20th Annual ...
Washington, D.C.—Yesterday, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (“LDF”) filed an amicus curiae (“friend of the court”) brief in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin (“Fisher II”), urging the U.S. Supreme Court ...
